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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Kowhai and Frederick

This painting isn't for sale, but I wanted to post something so that my multitudes of blog readers (hehe) would know that I am still in fact painting. I visited Nils at his family's farm in Maine, and had lots of fun helping out (playing) with the goats. I helped pull this particular baby goat into the world. We named him Frederick. Sadly his mother, Kowhai, died from complications with a second baby. So I made this painting in memory of her. She was a very nice goat.
I painted it during my first biathlon-training stint in Lake Placid. Painting things like this is a great way for me to stay sane while living at the olympic training center there. I'm going to be spending quite a bit more time there this summer, so that should ensure more paintings! And I took lots of baby goat pictures, so there will probably be some more baby goat paintings too!

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This blog started as a way to share my art and hopefully also to encourage me to make more of it. Then as my life got immersed in the world of biathlon, it came to be about that too. After all, the more you learn about something and the better you get at it, the more you realize that it is an art. I found that to be true of biathlon. But I have now decided to move on from biathlon, to have more time and energy for all of the other things I want to do. I'm not totally sure what I'll end up doing with my life or with this blog...maybe it will go back to being about art. Or maybe the new things that I do will take over. We'll see...but don't worry, I'll keep making art and having adventures!